From the conference room window of their year-old digs at 702 Hamilton St., Lehigh Gas Corp. employees can watch the progress of construction at Allentown's new PPL Center hockey arena complex. "We basically have a front row seat to the largest redevelopment project in the country," said Pete Waldron, Lehigh Gas vice president of public affairs and corporate communications and a former Lehigh County director of development. "I think it's pretty exciting to be in the middle of it all." Over the past two years, Lehigh Gas — a wholesale distributor of motor fuels that owns and leases property used in the retail distribution of motor fuels — has been...

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